Then some Dominican gibberish.

The eastern half is now called the Dominican Republic.

Danilo Medina Sánchez (born 10 November 1951) is a Dominican politician and the current President of the Dominican Republic, since 2012.

Today, emigration from the Dominican Republic remains high.

Sports Baseball is by far the most popular sport in the Dominican Republic.

Before and during World War II, 800 Jewish refugees moved to the Dominican Republic.

However, the relative calm over which he presided allowed improvement in the Dominican economy.

In 1965, the United States began a military occupation of the Dominican Republic to end a civil war.

The Dominican order arrived in Finland around 1249 and came to exercise huge influence there.

The Dominicans are right to seek at least a more solid regional commitment.

He made a small military intervention to ward off the European powers, proclaimed his famous Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, and in 1905 obtained Dominican agreement for U.S. administration of Dominican customs, then the chief source of income for the Dominican government.

April 28 US forces invade the Dominican Republic to prevent a communist takeover like the one that occurred in Cuba.

In the Dominican Republic, where it is locally called chinola , it is used to make juice and Fruit preserves.

Only the Dominican Republic, Peru, and Panama attained 6 7 growth.

Many Arawak Taíno names and words are used in daily conversation and for many foods native to the Dominican Republic.

Dominik had been working on the project for five years, but was unable to find an actor to portray Read.

With Vastine leading by two in the final round, the Dominican fighter made a comeback and won the fight.

Haitians were a hundred times more likely to die in an equivalent storm than Dominicans.

The sisters have received many honors posthumously, and have many memorials in various cities in the Dominican Republic.

Economy The Dominican Republic is the largest economy (according to the U.S. State Department) in the Caribbean and Central American region.

He founded the city of Santo Domingo on Hispaniola between 1496 and 1498, which is now the capital of the Dominican Republic.

Haiti is also dark, compared to its neighbor here, the Dominican Republic, which has about the same number of residents.

So the Franciscan order, the Dominican order and part of their expression of their own piety and self.. admigation is to go out begging in the streets.

For Dominicans, helping Haiti develop and become politically stable is the best way to safeguard their own stability.

In the Americas, 90 of the burden of lymphatic filariasis is on the island of Hispaniola (comprising Haiti and the Dominican Republic).

Dominican Republic has 4 Alliance Françaises, one in the capital city, Santo Domingo, and others in Santiago, Mao and Monte Cristi.

Both of these countries are dark compared to Puerto Rico, which has half as many residents as either Haiti or the Dominican Republic.

These are shots my wife took a couple days after the quake, while I was making my way through the D.R. into the country.

Conspicuously, Haiti s Dominican neighbors were the first to gauge the magnitude of the problem and the global nature of the required solution.

The most famous case is Argentina in 2002, but other recent examples include Indonesia, Uruguay, and the Dominican Republic.

Now, when we do studies we have, with other colleagues around the world, done over 8,000 interviews of people from Dominican monks, to blind nuns, to Himalayan climbers, to Navajo shepherds who enjoy their work.

On this day in 1960 three activists against the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic were beaten and thrown off a cliff.

Keeping alive the international community s commitment that is, seeking an international solution to Haiti s tragedy is a vital necessity for the Dominicans.

Their initiative is essentially driven by the fear that once Haiti s immediate humanitarian crisis is addressed, the country s underlying problems could be left at the door of the prosperous neighbors across the border.

But, unlike the EU, the Dominican Republic is not an economic giant that can assume exclusive responsibility for extracting Haiti from its Biblical destitution.

In the Dominican Republic, which has invested in hurricane shelters and emergency evacuation networks, the death toll was fewer than ten.

The Dominicans and Franciscans literally lived by begging that is, by depending on diverse sources of income, whose return to any particular investor was always unclear.

None of this holds true for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean islands mainly the Dominican Republic, but eventually Cuba, too, and, in its own way, Haiti.

As a result, hundreds of thousands of Haitians have migrated to the Dominican Republic, with some estimates of 800,000 Haitians in the country, while others put the Haitian born population as high as one million.

So long as the Haitian state remains fragile and the Haitian economy continues to decompose, the network of mafias living on illegal immigration into the Dominican Republic will continue to flourish.

The Dominican Republic has implemented participatory budgeting in all local governments, and a number of towns and cities in France, Italy, Germany, and Spain have also initiated participatory budgeting processes.

American Airlines Flight 587 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City to Santo Domingo's Las Américas International Airport in the Dominican Republic.

About one million Haitians now live in the Dominican Republic, but only about 10 of the Haitian laborers in the country are there legally, a condition that invites their exploitation by greedy employers.

Similarly, the rate at which eighth graders from the Dominican Republic entered upper secondary levels increased when they were simply told how much more those who finished high school earned an amount they had vastly underestimated.

However, efforts to develop commercial agriculture had limited success, in part because much of Haiti's labor force was employed at seasonal work in the more established sugar industries of Cuba and the Dominican Republic.